Jim Rivaldo

Jim Rivaldo (1947-16 October 2007) was a San Francisco gay rights activist and the manager for Harvey Milk's election campaigns in the city during the 1970s.

Biography
Jim Rivaldo was born in 1947 to a family of Italian descent, and he became known as a gay rights activist in The Castro district of San Francisco, California during the 1970s. Rivaldo, a harvard graduate, was known to be a great mind, and he managed to recruit Dick Pabich for the gay rights movement while working with Harvey Milk. Rivaldo helped Milk with all of his campaigns, and he co-founded the Gay Democratic Club with Milk. Rivaldo was the last person to speak with Milk before Milk's murder on 27 November 1978, and he would always state how proud he was to have worked with Milk. Rivaldo would become involved with civil rights as well, working on the election campaigns of every African-American candidate in the city, and he would become the first gay state commissioner when he represented San Francisco on the North Central Regional Coastal Commission. He died from liver cancer in 2007 at the age of 60.